The History of Mental Health Policy
Jaipreet Virdi, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History
VirdiJaipreet, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 328 pp.
A Maine shoemaker’s Potato Patch Plan feeds the poor
One of his aides told a reporter, “The Mayor proposes to find out if those elegant churches are only for show or for doing some real good.” They were for show…. The city’s wealthy families refused to contribute anything to the project.
Cowboy progressives
A Brief History of the Green New Deal (So Far)
History of Influenza Vaccination
Pioneering Social Research: Life Stories of a Generation
On Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and other Inmates, by Erving Goffman
Account of the present state of the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of their Reason
‘A landmark in psychiatric progress’? The role of evidence in the rise and fall of insulin coma therapy
Hells Angels, Head Hunters and the Filthy Few: The History of Outlaw Bikers in Aotearoa New Zealand
Documenting insanity: Paperwork and patient narratives in psychiatric history
Asylum Ways of Seeing: Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture
History of Psychiatric Hospitals
Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane, Philadelphia, PA c. 1900
From Melancholia to Depression: Disordered Mood in Nineteenth-Century Psychiatry
Indian sex life: sexuality and the colonial origins of modern social thought
Eggs, O’Wheels, hexagons, repairs: lesbian feminist Utopias in Australia, 1970s–1980s
Criticism as self-analysis
Aboriginal Australian mental health during the first 100 years of colonization, 1788–1888: a historical review of nineteenth-century documents
The Rise of Mental Health Nursing | A History of Psychiatric Care in Dutch Asylums | 1890-1920
Building Communism and Policing Deviance in the Soviet Union: Residential childcare, 1958–91
The Acid Room: The Psychedelic Trials and Tribulations of Hollywood Hospital
Adaptation to the New Normal—Maternal Employment in the Framework of Psychosomatic and Stress Discourse in Finland from the 1950s to the Early 1970s
Building the Ancestral Public: Cemeteries and the Necropolitics of Property in Colonial Ghana
Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory
FossKatherine A., Constructing the Outbreak: Epidemics in Media and Collective Memory. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020. 232 pp.
Psychological Knowledge and Practices in Brazilian Colonial Culture
Stressing the ‘body electric’: History and psychology of the techno-ecologies of work stress
Diagnosing Desire: Biopolitics and Femininity into the Twenty‐First Century
Professional Migration, Occupational Challenge, and Mental Health: Medical Practitioners in New Zealand, 1850–1890s
Stories of change: the Social Work Oral History Institute
Just Like Any Other Worker? Class and Gender in the Regulation of Domestic Service in the Early Soviet Period
The politicization of girlhood: from the Gibson girl to the National Woman’s Party, 1895–1920
UNI professor’s research behind push to honor Black Chicago social services pioneer
The Courier | Courtesy photo
An undated picture of Ada S. McKinley from the website of Ada S. McKinley Community Services in Chicago.
Disturbing Spirits: Mental Illness, Trauma, and Treatment in Modern Syria and Lebanon
The American Road: Highways and American Political Development, 1891–1956
The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. By David Paul Kuhn
Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93
History of school social work
Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
A ‘forgettable minority’? Psychiatric Institutions and the Intellectually Disabled in Ireland, 1965–84
Potions, pills, and patents: How basic healthcare became big business in America
The Family as a Locus of Illness: Secrecy, Suffering, and Institutional Practices
BASW Heritage Project Video
Charity, debt and social control in England’s early modern prisons
Our Rich History: Bob Berger and the Social Work program at Thomas More College
Northern Kentucky Tribune | Thomas More University Archives
Professor Robert “Bob” Berger
LGBT+ history: the bold, very British resistance to section 28
In 1987, a survey indicated that 64% of the British public thought that homosexuality was always wrong. The legislative response was section 28, which said local authorities shall not “intentionally promote homosexuality”.
The Neoliberal Age? Britain since the 1970s
The Orphan Train and the Children Who Rode It
NEHS
Jeremy Bentham and Australia Convicts, utility and empire
Plague Hospitals, Poverty and the Provision of Medical Care in France, c. 1450–c.1650
